Wilson v. Landstrom’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Emery v. Smith (2004), Tower South Property Owners Association v. Summey Building Systems Incorporated (1995)
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 65 Cal. 2d 578 - Handy v. Gordon · Norment v. Turley · Jordan v. Flynt · Arnold v. City of Spartanburg · Crystal Ice Co. of Cola. v. First Colonial Corp.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine of merger is founded upon the privilege, which parties always possess, of changing their contract obligations by further agreements prior to performance. The execution, delivery, and acceptance of a deed varying from the terms of the antecedent contract indicates an amendment of the original contract, and generally the rights of the parties are fixed by their expressions as contained in the deed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he deed and mortgage delivered and accepted at closing, not the prior contract, represented the final bargain of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is generally regarded as conclusive evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.